Anhalt-Katzbach

The Duchy of Anhalt-Katzbach (1568-1805) was a German city-state from central Germany.

History
Anhalt-Katzbach was founded in 1568 by Maximilian Gebhard von Katzbach, a scion of the House of Hohenstaufen that wished to keep the family strong. He was enfeoffed in Dessau, and his sons were made Dukes of Katzbach, a title awarded by Anhalt. The family made its fortune through war, selling mercenaries to the Protestants and Catholic sides in the Thirty Years War of the 1600s, the War of the Spanish Succession of 1700-1714, the War of the Austrian Succession in the 1740s, the Seven Years War of the 1750s, and the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s. The duchy was sold to Anhalt in 1805 in exchange for 6,000,000 Marks.